Screenplay: Terry Jones

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Terry Jones. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Plot TV series (1969-1974). 4 Seasons. 45 Episodes. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (also known as "Flying Circus", "MPFC" or just "Monty Python" during the fourth season) was a popular, surreal BBC...

8.4

12K votes

8.4

12K votes

Monty Python's Life of Brian

1979 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Plot The setting is Judea 33 A.D, a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some...

7.9

111K votes

7.9

111K votes

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

1982 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Hughes · Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Carol Cleveland

Plot A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor.

7.9

2K votes

7.9

2K votes

Monty Python: International Philosophy (S)

1972 · Movie · 4 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast John Cleese · Eric Idle · Graham Chapman · Michael Palin

Plot The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Monty Python's Personal Best (TV Miniseries)

2006 · Series · 360 min. · United States

Direction Harry K. Garvin

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Plot TV Miniseries (2006). 6 Episodes. Each episode showcases the contributions of a particular Monty Python member. The five surviving members (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and John...

7.5

175 votes

7.5

175 votes

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Plot Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do...

7.4

28K votes

7.4

28K votes

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1975 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Plot The Monty Python team are at it again in their second movie. This time we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail. This isn't...

7.4

46K votes

7.4

46K votes

Labyrinth

1986 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Henson

Cast Jennifer Connelly · David Bowie · David Goelz · Toby Froud

Plot 15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours.

7.2

31K votes

7.2

31K votes

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1971 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones

Plot Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python's Flying Circus) consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first...

7.2

86 votes

7.2

86 votes

Monty Python And Now For Something Completely Different

1971 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Plot A collection of re-filmed sketches from the first and second series of the cult TV comedy show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Includes such classics as "Nudge, Nudge", "Hell's Grannies", "Killer...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

Boom Bust Boom

2015 · Documentary · 74 min. · Netherlands

Direction Bill Jones · Terry Jones · Ben Timlett

Plot Terry Jones guides us through the history and the nature of the economic boom-bust cycle and why people repeatedly ignore it to their sorrow.

6.8

68 votes

6.8

68 votes

Ripping Yarns (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 270 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Franklin · Alan J.W. Bell · Terry Hughes

Cast Michael Palin · Charles McKeown · David Griffin · Michael Stainton

Plot TV Series (1976-1979). 2 Seasons. 9 Episodes. Wildly funny series featuring excellent writing by Monty Python members Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Palin is well cast in different roles as...

6.5

48 votes

6.5

48 votes

Erik the Viking

1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast Tim Robbins · Mickey Rooney · John Cleese · Terry Jones

Plot Tim Robbins stars as Erik the Viking, a thoughtful man in a violent time who does not enjoy killing and raping like the rest of his people. When he accidentally...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

The Wind in the Willows

1996 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast Steve Coogan · Eric Idle · Terry Jones · Antony Sher

Plot Mole is startled as machinery starts tearing up the field where his burrow is. He and his friend Rat go to see Toad, the lord of the manor, only to...

5.7

336 votes

5.7

336 votes

Consuming Passions

1988 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Giles Foster

Cast Tyler Butterworth · Jonathan Pryce · Freddie Jones · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot A tragic mishap at a chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets. The problem is that they want more!

5.0

37 votes

5.0

37 votes

Absolutely Anything

2015 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast Simon Pegg · Kate Beckinsale · Sanjeev Bhaskar · Rob Riggle

Plot ‘Sci-fi farce’ features Monty Python's Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and John Cleese voicing aliens who are able to give humans the power to do ‘absolutely anything.’ The story...

4.8

3K votes

4.8

3K votes

Medieval Lives (TV Miniseries)

2004 · Documentary · 240 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nigel Miller

Cast Terry Jones

Plot Terry Jones hosts this series that looks at the real facts about the Middle Ages and its roots.

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Marty (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

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The Frost Report (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Gilbert

Cast David Frost · Ronnie Parker · Ronnie Corbett · John Cleese

Plot A comedy show written and staring various comedy pioneers including comedians who would go on to form the Two Ronnies and Monty Python.

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Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python (TV)

1999 · Documentary · 125 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones · Elaine Shepherd

Cast Eddie Izzard · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Plot Host Eddie Izzard links together interviews with former Python members and other famous comedians to tell the story of one the most famous comedy troupes of the 20th century. Includes...

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